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Originally Posted by StarkReality
Well, it's not my intention to point to any program, spookycash has great quality content, but yes, they are one of them and since I don't have much traffic in their niche, it's barely worth the hassles for me.
I'm signed up to like 180+ CCBill programs at the moment, and while I send some alot of traffic, many just receive a little and get a signup a week or so. It sums up nicely, but if each of my "complimentary sponsors" would have it's own system, keeping an overview of what's going on would be a real nightmare...keeping track of the payouts, check arrival dates, updating my books, scanning checks, archiving stubs, the whole paperwork stuff.
I don't put all my eggs in one basket, using a few dozen non-ccbill programs as well, but if I, for example, get a good listing for a keyword I have no corresponding sponsor site for, I love checking for ccbill programs first, simply because it's easy to signup, I can grab content/galleries/linkingcodes in a few minutes, that's it.
I see a big advantage for CCBill only programs on the owner side as well. Almost all webmaster already have an account, so even if they are not sure if a program may work for them, I could imagine many just signup for a quick and easy testdrive...and some will start pushing alot more traffic if they see the program performs well. When it comes to programs using their own system/interface, most affiliates are probably alot more picky.
Both have advantages and disadvantages, but sometimes convenience and the trust in a big name like CCBill are worth more to affiliates than a signup more or less, at least for me...and it's not like conversion ratios are magically cut in half with 2 or more billers. CCBill sometimes scrubs a little hard, but other do so as well and scrubbing means less chargebacks, less problems.
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SpookyCash is still billing through both Epoch and CCBill, but payments to affiliates will be sent from Epoch, instead of CCBill, in the near future. The MPA3 system via Epoch shows affiliates a lot more about which of their links and traffic sources are actually sending joins and making them money.
And, of course, for SpookyCash specifically, we email affiliates with new links with some regularity, so that part is hopefully easy.
I do understand what you are saying in terms of liking being able to combine payouts from sponsors who are not the primary niches you promote, as that was certainly one of the features which attracted me to CCBill, when I first set it up. If you already have any Epoch sponsors, you can combine your payouts with Epoch, the same as you can with CCBill, although if the sponsors you promote only a bit are all CCBill, I guess that doesn't make a huge difference.